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... write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief means of expressing my thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what ...
... write , " it will be a satisfaction to know that , though the last twenty months is the first period in my life when it has been permitted me to make my pen my chief means of expressing my thoughts , yet I have written enough , if what ...
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... writer would still find it neces- sary to investigate the laws of criticism as a science , to settle its conditions as an ... write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our thoughts . act . First ...
... writer would still find it neces- sary to investigate the laws of criticism as a science , to settle its conditions as an ... write on criticism , but , by classifying the critics , imply our hopes and thereby our thoughts . act . First ...
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... writing is to sift , not to Arad stamp a work . Yet should they not be " sieves and drainers for the use of luxurious readers , " but for the use of earnest in- quirers , giving voice and being to their objections , as well as stimulus ...
... writing is to sift , not to Arad stamp a work . Yet should they not be " sieves and drainers for the use of luxurious readers , " but for the use of earnest in- quirers , giving voice and being to their objections , as well as stimulus ...
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... writer . An external consistency is thus produced , at the expense of all salient thought , all genuine emotion of life , in short , and all living influence . Their purpose may be of va- lue , but by such means was no valuable purpose ...
... writer . An external consistency is thus produced , at the expense of all salient thought , all genuine emotion of life , in short , and all living influence . Their purpose may be of va- lue , but by such means was no valuable purpose ...
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... write for us , and we would know what they think , as they think it not for us but for them- selves . We would live ... writing A SHORT ESSAY ON CRITICS . 19.
... write for us , and we would know what they think , as they think it not for us but for them- selves . We would live ... writing A SHORT ESSAY ON CRITICS . 19.
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